This requirement is for: The Correctional Service of Canada, Pacific Region.
Trade agreement: Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), World Trade Organisation-Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP), Canada Ukraine Free-Trade Agreement (CUFTA), Canada Korea Trade Agreement (CKTA), Canada free trade agreements with Chile/Colombia/Honduras/Panama, Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement, Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and Canada-United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement (Canada-UK TCA), Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Tendering procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid.
Competitive Procurement Strategy: lowest priced compliant bid.
Set-aside under the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business:
This procurement is not subject to any set-asides for Indigenous Suppliers.
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement:
This procurement is not subject to a Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement.
Security Requirements:
This contract does not include security requirements.
Nature of Requirements:
The following is a summary of the statement of work for this requirement.
The Correctional Service Canada's Health Services Branch has a requirement for the delivery Emergency Trauma Care (ETC) Training on an as and when requested basis to nurses working in CSC’s Institutions. The Emergency Trauma Care Training is the Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) course or a course with the same training content and will be referred to as ETC in this statement of work.
Objectives:
To certify CSC nurses in ETC through training delivered in a pre-hospital setting based on a pre-hospital trauma care model. Nurses who have successfully completed this training will be able to demonstrate sound knowledge and skills in emergency and trauma response.
Tasks
The Contractor must provide all training materials and equipment including audiovisual equipment, and instructors as well as transportation of training materials, equipment and instructors to and from the training location.
1.3.1 Theory Component:
The contractor must send the Project Authority hardcopies of the training materials (textbook, or manual or both) upon confirmation of sessions booked. The contractor must provide a maximum of 240 of the current and most up-to-date editions of the training manuals required for the course at contract award. If applicable to the training course, the contractor must send any pre-test or other materials to the project authority one to three weeks prior to the in-person course start date. Students are required to read and understand the theory component of the textbook content and complete the pre-test prior to the in-person component.
Following the theory component, the Contractor must provide in-person training of assessment, skills and scenarios;
1.3.2 The contractor must provide in-person training that meets the following requirements:
• Only one instructor must deliver the training;
• The Contractor must develop and deliver scenarios to CSC nurses to assess and manage trauma care patient(s) in a unique environment (e.g., in a federal correctional institution), where nurses may carry emergency equipment, medications and oxygen to the location of the emergency when a patient cannot quickly and easily be brought to the Health Services Centre. Nurses may respond to an emergency when a person is unconscious on the ground. Nursing care may be provided in sometimes small, confined or other cramped spaces (e.g., inmate's cell). Nurses must have the ability to provide care that includes, but is not limited to airway management including airway insertion, using an ambu bag, chest compressions, and any other interventions that a nurse may need to administer to a patient in an emergency situation. The contractor must meet with the Project authority at Contract award to discuss scenario development. The Project Authority will provide specific scenarios to the contractor at contract award.
• The training must be completed within one to three weeks from the theory component (which must be delivered via a hard copy text book);
• Deliver the key components of the course (as listed below) utilizing knowledge and hands on assessment according to International ETC outline:
o Scene Management and Primary Survey
o Airway Management
o Circulation and IV Therapy
o Secondary Survey
o Kinematics of Trauma
o Head Trauma
o Spinal trauma
o Disabilities and Fractures
o Burns
o Multi-patient care
1.3.3 Maximum number of Emergency Trauma Care Training sessions:
• The contractor’s instructor(s) must provide the required number of training sessions in Pacific Region. Each session will have a minimum of four (4) and maximum of six (6) participants. CSC may add participants with the contractor’s agreement. The number of participants and sessions is subject to change depending on CSC's needs and the number of participants per session.
STREAM ESTIMATED MAXIMUM NUMBER OF SESSIONS
Pacific Region 40
The estimated number sessions is based on delivery of training sessions during previous years. It does not represent a commitment from CSC that CSC’s actual requirements during the course of the contract will be consistent with this number.
1.3.4 The Contractor must provide Instructor(s) to deliver the ETC training in English, on an “as and when requested basis”.
1.3.5 The Instructor(s) must perform the following tasks:
a) If applicable, supply the project authority with instructions to the shared with the participants for the theory component of ETC training and pre-testing requirements;
b) Provide in-person training sessions to participants;
c) Provide a list of, and information on, the electronic devices the Contractor requires for delivery of the in-person training. CSC will determine the devices’ compatibility with its whiteboards or overhead projectors and approve them to allow the Contractor to bring them into a CSC environment. The Contractor must be prepared to adjust its selection of electronic devices depending on their compatibility with CSC equipment and acceptability for a correctional environment;
d) Arrive and log-in at least 30 minutes prior to the start of training to ensure that training equipment is operational and the training room is properly set up. The instructor is responsible for the working order of their electronic and medical training equipment.
e) Greet and provide administrative briefing to participants at the beginning of the in-person training. Outline the course content and evaluation;
f) Provide administrative briefing for the location of fire exits, washrooms, and lunchroom for the in-person session;
g) Provide an attendance sheet and have participants sign it for both training days during the in-person session;
h) Review the attendance sheet to ensure participants have signed;
i) Assess the participants to ensure they have successfully completed the training;
j) Send a certificate of completion for each participant; to the CSC Regional Practice Lead, Nursing;
k) Deliver the training content in accordance with policies and procedures reflective of a unique pre-hospital setting trauma care environment using correctional institution type scenarios ;
l) Provide their own electronic devices required to facilitate the training;
m) Provide a supportive learning environment conducive to motivating optimal learning;
n) Encourage participants to engage with each other in support of the learning objectives;
o) Help and guide the participants learn the subject matter;
p) Ensure the training timeline is managed effectively;
q) Keep the discussion(s) on track;
1.3.6 Course Hours and Duration
The Contractor must deliver the in-person training sessions during CSC’s core business hours, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Contractor must obtain the Project Authority’s approval, in advance, for any change in the training hours.
The in person facilitation must be a maximum duration of sixteen hours (two days).
1.3.7 Training Cancellation or Rescheduling
(a) CSC may cancel or reschedule the in-person training at no charge by giving a written notice to the Contractor by email at least seven (7) calendar days prior to in-person training delivery;
(b) CSC may cancel in-person training due to an unforeseeable or uncontrollable event (including, but not limited to a lockdown, strike, virus attack, a pandemic, a power or technical failure) at no charge regardless of when CSC gives notice to the Contractor.
(c) In the event that CSC cancels or reschedule an in-person training session (for reasons other than an unforeseeable or uncontrollable event) less than seven calendar days prior to the delivery date, the Contractor will be paid 25% of the firm price per in-person training session in accordance with Annex B-Basis of Payment;
(d) In the event that CSC cancels or reschedules a scheduled training on the day of or during the training, the Contractor will be paid the full firm price per in-person training session in accordance with Annex B-Basis of Payment;
Deliverables:
The Contractor must provide:
1.4.1 A hard copy version of the training manuals for the in-person training, for each participant as well as any required training handouts;
1.4.2 A list of all successful and unsuccessful participants at the end of each training session to CSC’s Project Authority;
1.5 Location of Work
1.5.1 The contractor must deliver the training at the Correctional Learning and Development Centre at:
#103-30585B Progressive Way Abbotsford, British Columbia.
Any conditions for participation of suppliers not specified in solicitation documentation: none.
Estimated quantity of commodity: see solicitation document statement of work and basis of payment.
Duration of Contract and Time Frame for Delivery:
Period of the Contract: The Work is to be performed during the period of February 01, 2025 to January 31, 2028.
File Number: 21801-24-0035
Contracting Authority: Kristen Malanowich
Telephone number: (236) 380-6646
Facsimile number: (604) 870-2444
E-mail: Kristen.Malanowich@csc-scc.gc.ca
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